University of Rochester has rehired Harl Tolbert, currently with Pennsylvania State University, as associate vice-president of URVentures.

Deep Nishar, formerly an Americas-focused senior managing partner at SoftBank’s Investment Advisers subsidiary, has announced his plans to leave the parent firm at the end of this year.

The venture firm hired new director Asif Giga, who has worked at corporate VC units Ericsson Ventures, Experian Ventures and Singtel Innov8 Ventures.

Q&A with Andrew Casey, corporate development deal lead, Vanguard Strategic Business Development

Rob Woodman, formerly a senior partner at Takeda’s CVC unit and head of its Genesis Labs incubator, will lead venture firm Panakès Partners’ biotech investment activities.

Last month, Jeff Herbst departed from US-headquartered semiconductor technology provider Nvidia, where he had led its business development activities and corporate venture capital (CVC) unit Nvidia GPU Ventures for two decades starting in 2001.

Vijay Reddy, formerly an AI and deeptech-focused partner at Intel Capital, has departed from its parent company and joined venture firm Clear Ventures in a similar position.

Q&A with Jacqueline LeSage, founder and managing director, Munich Re Ventures

Q&A with Christopher Park, investment director, UL Ventures

SoftBank has brought in former Redpoint eVentures partners Rodrigo Baer and Marco Camhaji to work on its recently launched second Latin America-focused fund.